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» v • \ % % Journal—gdwtti) to Jletos, politics, literature, Agriculture, antr % Internal Interests of % people. three dollars per annum in advance. ATHENS, GA. SEPTEMBER 22, 1871. VOL. XLI.—NO. 4—NEW SERIES. VOL. 4. NO. 48 Miscellaneous. ri WKKKLI, * BY S. A. ATKINSON, xT TUBE* DOLLARS PER ANNUM* STRICTLY IS ADl'ANCS. Oficf, Broad st., overJ. H, Huggins. fllTKS OF AOVKBTtSIXe. 4 1 »rri i «■ m<m» will be Inserted at One Dollar and r>fir C»M* r- r Squire o(U line*, forth* list,end *M.nt;-tl>r Cent*for each subsequent Insertion, f.rm* time underone month. For n wnfer period lib -ril cootncu will be made. Business Directory. 1.AK Alt COBB. A. 8. ERWIN. ROWELL COBB l COBB, ERWIN & COBB, A ttorneys At law, Athene, Georgia. OBe* k» the Deoprec Summey & Newton, BROAD «T..«THINa,ia. IRON, PLOW STEEL, STEEL, HOES, NAILS, PLOWS, MILL SAWS, COTTON GINS, And General Hardware and Cutlery, at Wholesale and Retail. .. „ . SU.VMBY <t .VfillTOA’ them, Ga., April 14th. tf A’e. 6 Brood Si. A ttorney at law IlMir, llank* County. Ga.' Will pmetlre In Oi* cuuntic* of Rinkd, Jackson, Hall, Haber- *hatn and Franklin. MISIJN W. IllDKN, A T t o r n e y a t l a w , *A Notary PuMIe, Athem, Ga. Will pr»r- llc. in lli* W,-,Urn circuit : will glre particular atuntlnn to the collection ofclaimi. and will act as arrnt for th* purchau and sale of real estate and 1.4, tat., on wild lands. janistt J M. aBKLTOS, - C. W. aKIDKLL, SKELTON Si SKI DEI L. A ttorneys at law, Hartwell, Hurt County, Georgia- 1 PITTMAN <ft 1IINT0N, A TTORNEYS AT LAW, A. V, Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga. SAMUEL I*. THURMOND, \ TTORNEY AT LAW, -L V. Athens, Ga. Office on Bread atreet, over Barry .% ftan’s Storo. Will Kivt: sjiecial attention to in Bankruptcy. Also, to the collection oi all cJaimaantrustcd to his care. ARTHUR EVANS, Watchmaker & Jeweller, (LATE WITH CHILDS dc MOSS,) TDESPECTFULLY announces to All the eHiaena of Athena and vicinity that he hae located at th* New Draw Store of Dr. Wn. Kins, and la prepared to do all kind* of repair* on d w ^b^a>i; welry ’ ,lc - . TO THTB*'¥TOIiIC. T HAVE PURCHASED the inter- cstof Mr. Wm. J. Morton in the late firm of Ditch A Morton, and will continue the business. I hope, by fair dealing to retain the customers of the late firm, and lo receive a fair share of the trade in my line of business. A fresh stock of Clothing and Furnishing Goods will be received for the Commencement trade. July 21. J. E. DITCH. WM. WOOD, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF P VRNXTURE l^URNITURE REPAIRED, UP- J- holstercd and varnished, also a large variety of wood coffins and Fisk's Patent Metalic Burial Cases always on hand. Ware rooms on Clayton St. # next to Episcopal Church. Sep9 6m. WILLIAM WOOD. Fireside Miscellany. True Heroism. Let others write of battles fought, 01 bloody, ghastly fields, Where honor greets the man who wins, And death the man who yields; But I will write of him who fights And vanguishes his sins, Who straggles on through weary years Against himself, and wins. He is a hero staunch and breve AVho fights an unseen foe, And pnLs at last beneath his feet His passions base and low; Who stands erect in manhood's might Undaunted, undismayed— The bravest man who drew a sword In foray or in raid. It calls for something more Alton bptwn Or muscles to o'er come An enemy who marcheth not With banner, plume, and drum— A foe forever lurking nigh, With silent, stealthy tread. Forever near your board by day, At night beside your bed. All honor, then, to that brave heart. Though poor or rich he be, Who straggles with his better part— Who conquers and is free He ntny not wear a hero’s crown, Or fill a hero’s grave, But truth will place his name among The bravest of the brave. From the Herald of Health. Keep the Distaff Ready, and God will Scud the Flax. BY FfiANCES DANA GAGE, J. J. A J. f. ALEXANDER, I DEALERS IN HARDWARE, JL^ Iron Atari, XmN, Cimago Material, Mining inpl«tncnta,;&c., Whitehall<«(., Atlunta. . M.VAN ESTES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, -a-AJ Ho«er, IIink* County, Ga. j. r. rai^KKT. A XjT O R N E Y A T L A W . V. Chincavillr, Franklin countv, G*. Office a.rrty ucropletl by J. F. Lsngsion, Esq. ia21 A. B. FA mix: IIA K, fr.pri.tcr of P*ae*ylv.Bia Agricultural Work,. iUa-fvrturer of Impra.td [YOBK, Phnh-a. SlfW^VmJs SOLID STEEL SWEETS, 8> YEKi », , nd sutATERs. STEEL PLOWS, SHOVEL PLOW B1.AU1.S, I CULTIVATORS nps«-Pow*ns, TiirE.ii- IS . M \f |llSKS,Ac.,Ac. iS 3 "*"** Sfud fir Illustrated CAialogue. Toppy Maguire ts. Grant. A RICH SCENE ON A ROAT. LONG BRANCH FLOUR A ViAYt STORE! OX COLLEGE AVENUE, (opposite newton house.) W3I. HENRY HULL. Wilkie Collins’ Novels. \RM.\DALE; paper, SI 60;— ^ A. c!«*th, f'J. Man and Wife ; paper, $1 ; cloth, Si .V). The Moon-Stone; paper, $1 50: cloth, $2. r , |MjM*r, Si 50; clotli: 2. The woman in paix-r Si 50 : cloth, $2 For «nlc l y T. A. BURKE. 0»KCA.K,A.’S Giant Pocket Corn Sltellcr, PRICE ONLY SI 50. Call and see -L it at CHILDS, NICKERSON A CO’S. HARNESS LEATHER, AND HARNESS MATERIAL. POR SALE BY -L 1 CHILDS, NICKERSON A CO. Carriage, Buggy & Wagon A LARGE and well selected assort- muni, for *ale by CIIILDS, NICKERSON & CO. Horse, Cow, Hog & Chicken ^3^-_TL) U3d jSLJ a N E WDKUg” STORE. For Sale or Exchange. I IIA YE *>00 acres of land in Cle- .L hurne Co., All., which 1 >tl,: li t heap, or ex- Catu- ho bt-M buttoin land .reck, producing :•» T.'» busheb of corn ner acre, and cotton in i ro}oii;on. The remainder is in the wihnIh. The farm »> -0 miles from the Selma, Home and Dalton Railroad, one and a quarter u»Ue»» from the eounty site, EdwanUvilic, 6 miles from the located dejMit of the Columbus and Chat tanooga Railroad, and one mile from the route of the Oritlin and North Alabama Railroad There is an excellent store house (not l»e- longing to the place), which can be lxiuglil or rented cliea.p and is a Splendid Stand for a Country Store. Titles indisputable. For further information ap ply to, or address Dr.-J. \V. MURRELL, March 31-3in Athens, Ga. No S un Wl*:tc ; New Hooks. r PHE COMIC BLACKSTONE; by -L tiilbert Abliot A'Beckctt, with illustrations h . T George t’ruikshank. One large volume. 52 50. Why did he not l»ic? or, the Child from the Khrxcrgang. From the German; by Mrs. A. L. Witter, fil 75. Heat. Being volume first of Science for the Young; by Jacob Abbott, with numerous illustra tions. <1 50. Callirhor. By Maurice Sand (son of George s »ul). From the French, by S. A. I>eponte, of Nf« Orleans. $1 75. Fat better thau Physic; or, Everybody's Life Frew ver; by W. W. ilull, M. D. 51 50. Tti« Ucathen Chinee; by Bret llarte, with eight illust iiions. Price 25 cent*. For sale by Jut.* 2 T. A. BURKE. SUMMEY & NEWTOMi Importers and Dealers in , Steel, Nails, Hollow Ware, 11 H.kHV SINK. ANVII.N, VIBEN, UtKDtVARR, AT, 8, Broad Street, Athens, Ga. Ofira North raster n Railroad, Athens, June 47; 1871. \ WR E is hereby given that the ' u, '»' r iptiou to the Northeastern “* nuw °I* n ft,r auhocrlption, at stock T* ’ * per rant on the auhacrlheJ u „. ’ ‘* Uf anJ payable to It. L. Moaa, Treaa- . r. wputiea, at Jelferaon, llomer, Har- ,*n I Usington. , , K I- BLOOMFIEI.D, Acting Prealdent. Jtih- ***">*», Secretary. bOXGS & lHLLUlPS, BROAD ST., ATlltWS, GEO., THE GEM ! THE GEM !! BEST FRUIT JAR ever in ented. For Male st the r PHE JL vente NEW DRUG STORE. 'PHAT BROWN’S GIN I pur JL- chased of Summey A Newton (Agent* for it in Athens) a'*>ut two years ago, is ns good as new now, and there is tune better. TIIOS. HOLDER. Notice to Planters. HAVE jterfected arrange- ments with the Brown Cotton Gin Co., so that we can allow time on these celebrated Gins. All letters cheerfully simmered. SUMMEY & NEWTON. W E „. DEALERS IN MEDICINES, AND CHEMICALS, DYE-STUFFS, PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, . PUTTY, ST VTIOJNERY ; YFRU HERY. IJQronS. BITTERS, \^b EVERYUHING usually IXii". .I' 4 * 11 ! kt P> >■> » Flrat Claaa Dra* Store. »lwr. l 1 "' 1 ' 11011 haa been parJ in the selection w,t, „ 'he purity and reliability of out k “'He* and phyilclana are assured that | <>« — k* ktled with promptness and fidelity. ;?u f S OF FANCY GOODS fmbr * c * n * *(wat variety J () JLKr articles, BRUSHES, ii: COMBS, AC. W .. , ' Preparations, Hurley's . "a Mpsrrila, Drake’s h”i . '4 1 •»»:».n’s t'rimean Jtl * ..j,’ } ,l »ri's»ierm«nBltt«W, ‘ ,rr P'*"ri4r Drvparstions always on Uuiitl. JHK.SH garden seeds ^d^*\E £&. toT JT. LOUIS LEAD, 'vd.trlctly pure-th. heat In the market fall and Winter Importation. 1871. RIBBONS, Millinery and Straw Goods ARMSTRONG, GATOR & CO., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF BONNET, TRIMMING, AND VELVET Bonnet Sillcs, Satins and Velvets, Blonds. Nells, Crapes, Ruches, Flowers, Feathers, 0 BN A MEN TS, tynuuU and Judies’ TRIMMED AND UNTIUMMED, , Sll.tKF.lt IIOODS, AC. 237 and 239 Baltimore Street, BAl.TiyiOltR, si o. Offer the !srgest stock to be found in tbis conn try, and unequalled in choice variety and cheap ness, comprising the latest European novelties. Orders solicited, and prompt attention given. Aug 11 5t Wm.* A. Talmadge, OF. POST OFFICE, COL. AVF.ME, ATUF.X ^^•W.22S.tE? Wfc Cook Book. N ' SUPPLY just received, by T. A. BURKE. Dealer in Watehea, Clocks, Jewelry, Sllvor-pla Ware, Musical Instrument*, Spentsclet, Gun Platola, Sporting Equipments, Ac.. Ac. A Select Stock of American and Im ported Watches, Double Guns with 40 inch barrel, ejixltemt/or leap range. Plttoll of all kinds. Penetration of bull 6% inches into wood. With a desire to please all, will aell the'abovegond at very reasonable prices. REPAIRING-. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Gun* and Pistols, jvnmiptly attended lo in a satisfactory manner.— 1 and aee for yourselves. apr4 To Housekeepers. TUST RECEIVED, a large assort ed ment of which we are offering at very low prices, stoves sold by ns WARRANTED IN EVERY PARTICULAR SUMMEY & NEWTON. Six weeks ago last Friday, Geu. Grant went down to Long Branch from this city on the Jesse Hoyt He went up into the upper cabin, and passed out to the forward deck. There he dropped into un easy cliuir. Soon after the Hon. Hosca B. Per kins took a seat fifteen feet from Gen. Graut. lie wore black clothes and a high hat, and talked with everybody within speaking distance. Gen. Grant meanwhile had pulled the newspaper from his pocket and was reading it very intently. After the boat started, the Hon. Toppy Maguire, proprietor of the Cayuga House on Harlem Lane, ap proached Mr. Perkins. “ How do you do, Mr. Perkins? said Toppy Maguire. “ Quite well, thank you,’ responded Mr. Perkins “ how is Mrs. Maguire and children?” “ First-rate” answered Toppy.— “ You’re looking well, Mr. Perkins.” “ Do you think so ?” said Mr. Per kins, “ There’s a man over there looks better than I do,” pointing to Gen. Grant. “ Who is it ?” asked Toppy. “ Why, don’t you know who that is ?” said Mr. Perkins, in much aston ishment. “ Well, he looks like a horse fanci er,” replied Mark ; “ but I never saw him before. Who is it?” “That is the President of the United States,” said Mr. Perkins, im pressively. No ! You don’t tell me so!” ex claimed Toppy, gasping for breath. “Yes, I do,” said Mr. Perkins; and do you know, Mark, that there’s a great resemblance between you and the President ? though I think,’ look ing nervously from one to the other, ‘ that the President’s a better looking man than you are.” “ Well, now, come,” said Toppy; that’s a little rough, Mr. Perkius.— I’ll have to bet a little bottle of wine that Pm a better-looking man than Grant. If I ain’t, I’ll shut up the Cayuga, and travel.” “ Well, I’ll xvager a small bottle,’ said Mr. Perkins. “But whom shall we leave it to ?” Oh, leave it to the first Jerseyman that comes along,” responded Toppy. At that instant a Jerseyman ap proached. He xvore a small hat, a blue cotton necktie, no vest, a pair of barn-door pantaloons of a red sand stone color, and army shoes. Mr. Perkins accosted him thus: “ Would you oblige me, sir, by set tling a little wager between this gen tleman and myself?" pointing his thumb at Toppy Maguire. “ Well,’ replied the Jerseyman, coming to a dead standstill. “ Jest as lieve’s not. What’s the bet 1” “ Well, we want you to decide which is the best-looking of these two: This one,’ pointing to Toppy, ‘ or that one over there reading the paper,”pointing to Grant The Jerseyman stuck his hands in his breeches pocket, walked over to the President, straddled his legs, and took a good look at him. Then he return ed, gazed at Toppy Maguire in the same manner. “ Well, what do you think ?” asked Mr Perkins. “They look enough alike to be broth ers,” responded the Jerseyman. “ But I think this here man,” looking at Toppy, has got a good deal more intel lect about him than the other fellow.— He’s about as stupid a looking sped- nen as I ever saw.” “That’ll do,’ said Mr. Perkins.— AU “ Mark, let’s go down stairs.” And Mr. Perkins hauled out three dollars and bursted a bottle of wine. New York Sun. It is many a long year, fifty or more, since my mother sent my little sister and myself over the big hill to do an errand to the old Irish woman who lived there with her widowed daughter and her little ones. “ Get your sleds, girls; for there is quite a heavy basket to carry—a bun dle of flax for Granny’s wheel, and some meal, meat, and cheese for her New Year’s dinner; it’s very cold, but you love to coast; so draw your sled up this side of the hill, and slide down the other, and when you come hack up the other side, you can coast down this, and that will be rare sport, you know.” Off we trudged, well pleased with our work • for we loved to visit Gran ny, as we all called her; to hear her musical brogue, less common by far than now, and to hear her sing her Irish rollicking songs as she turned her wheel. The forest path glittered with well- trodden snow, and the trees on every hand were strung with diamonds that the clear rays of the winter sunshine made brilliant beyond conception.— Icicles hung like spears from every post and fence-rail, and the whole world xvas glowing like fairy laud. Little cared we for col l or toil, and our load was soon deposit?d at Granny’s fireside. “ Array! didn’t I tell yez now,” exclaimed the delighted woman, “ when yez toukl me to put by me wheel the day ? Och, nanny mavour- neen! it’s meself that know’d it. ‘I must keep my distaff ready, and God would sind the flax!’ and here it comes; and ye, wT your eyes so rid! There was noe meal in kist, noe pertaties in the bin, and noe meat in the bar’l.— Ach, nannie cushla! ye’ve no faith, ye’ve no faith !” I never forget Granny Allison’s pro verb : “ Keep the distaff ready, and God will send the flax.” Mayhap, I did not quite understand its meaning then, at ten years old. But I went my way ponderiug. It was a long time ere its full significance was revealed. But as I grew into womanhood, as the cares and duties of life came upon me, as the obligations and responsibilities which my surroundings imposed called for action, I slowly learned the import of those deepmeaning words ; learned there were other distaffs and other spindles than those with which we spin threads to weave into garments to be kept ready for use, and also that there was other flax xvhich the good God sends us than that which goes through the heckle ; and those that kept not the distaff ready, and the spindle bright for turning, and the foot strong for the treadle, would fail to draw out day by day the strongest and most durable threads for their own and the world’s good. As I went forth into the world, among its bursting buds and flowers of spring, I noticed the plow in the fur row, and the' golden grain dropped therein ; the birds building their nests among the trees and grasses ; the bees among the maple buds, and the hen preparing for her brood; the brooks wearing their own channels; the vio lets gathering their blue, and the rose its red. I asked myself, Has all Na ture, animate and inanimate, instinct and intuition to lead it to be earnest industrious, and persistent in its work— all but the human life ? The spring gave place to summer and autumn; the flower perfected seeds; the yellow corn grew into a har vest ; the birds filled their nest with life that flutters away when the snows come; the bees laid up their honey and the brooks had worn deeper chan nels. But where was the instinctive life and freedom of my own soul, and the souls of those that surrounded me what hail we done to give health, plen ty, life and joy to the future? Was our distaff always ready, and our feet upon the treadle ? How many bundles of shining flax had rotted ? God sent flax that might have been drawn into beautiful threads, if we had been ready for the blessing, ready to act our part in the great drama of life’s usefulness. But our wheel was set aside by con ventionalism. The distaff was not in fashion, custom had made the treadle vulgar, and the golden hours went by and no work was done. There was no bread for winter, no flower-aeeds for the spring-time, no birds to come back and twitter their loves in our listless ears, no meandering brooks among the circumscribed existence watering the violets and roses of a healthy, happy existence; only (oh, pitiful tale!) waste, dead pool of stagnant water, giving out its miasmas and death Shall human bees lay by no boney, and human hens prepare no nest for future loves. Ah! let us onoe more try to get out the old wheel of useful ness, and, keeping the distaff always ready, and the foot strong fur work despite custom, fashion, conventional ism, or law, be a law unto ourselves, and careftftly using the flax that God sends, take into our owu souls rest and peace, with faith, like Granny 'Allison’s that to every human soul that “ keeps the distaff readv, God will send the flax.” —^ ... The Curfew Bell. Many have heard of the “ curfew bell,” but not all who know its origin. Its histoiwin England runs back to the time of William the Conqueror, who ordered a hell to be rung about sun down msaminer, and eight o’clock in at which time fire and lq&s 'Were fo be put out and the people tonremain within doors, and penalties were imposed upon those who neglected or refused to comply with the law. This was called the “ curfew,” a word derived from the French couvrefeu, cover fire, and so the appropriateness of the name is readily seen. The old King has been generally charged with instituting this custom in order to im press upon his subjects a sense of their abject condition ; but as the “ curfew bell” xvas rung in France long before William’s time, as a safeguard against fires, it is uot improbable that he brought the custom with him into England from the continent, and that he has been slanderer! as to his motives. At any rate, ho has sins enough to answer for without this. In the sixteenth century “ bellmen” were added to the night watch in Lon don. They went through the streets ringing their bells, and crying: “ Take care of fire and candle; be kind to the p; or, and pray for the d, ad.” It was the bellman’s duty also to bless the sleepers as he passed the doors. In “ II Penseroso" Miltou refers to this custom: “The bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors trout nightly harm." Poets have often referred to the cur few or cover-fire bell. Gray begins his beautiful “ Elegy” with “ The curfew tulla the Uuell of parting <lajr." Longfellow, too, has a pretty little poem telling the story of this bell with charming simplicity : “ Solemnly, mournfully dealing It* dole, The curfew bell is beginning to toll. Corer the ember, put out the light, Toil comes with the moruing, and rest with the that class of persons here than any other, xve have passed a law prohibiting theadmission of any editors, only those who have advanced our interest in their papers on earth, and even those we keep in a separate room by themselves. You have published many things ope rating against us, and always blamed the devil with everything that went wrong, so you can’t come in. We en force this rule without respect to persons, for our own peace and safety. Now travel.” Casting a droll lear on the outside sentinel, our typographical friend start ed on again, determined to get above. This time he took with him an old file of his paper, and presenting it to the guardian of the celestial city, requested that it might be carefully examined, and they could see whether he was en titled to a free ticket. In due course of time the conductor came along and took him in, telling him that he had been a martyr to the cause of human improvement, and that resolutions had been passed to admit all members of the art preservative who had abused the devil while below. He added that as they were punished enough by being w ith the ‘ devil,’ all their future punish ment Is commuted. He further stated that not one delinquent newspaper sub scriber could be found in Heaveu. Farm Miscellany. What Shall be Done With Weeds I | .. Origin of Agricultural fairs. KING DAVID OF THE JEWS FUKSIDKXY I OF THE FIKtT AOKICCLTUILVI. FA 111. Dark grow the windows, and quenched I* the fire, Sound f.tdcs into silence, all footsteps retire. No voice in the chambers, no sound in the hall, bleep and oblivion reign overall." King William died, and the original obligations of the curfexv xvere at last removed about the time of Henry L, in 1100; but the custom of ringing an evening bell is still kept up in England, ith variations as to the hour. The nine o’clock bell”—familiar to most New England people—which sends so many young jieople home and to bed, and xvhich in the early history of our country, xxas almost as rigidly obeyed by all, both old and young, as the old curfexv, traces its origin almost directly to the cover-fire bell. In Lougfelloxv’s Evangeline” the custom is well de fined : *' Anon the bell from the belfry Rang out the hour of nine—the village curfew— and straightway Rose the guests and departed ; and silence reigned in the household." But now the customs have changed; and though the bell still rings out on the evening air, in country village and city streets, it has lost its |>oxver, save as a tale of passing time. Let the old bells ring on; xve love the sound ; or, in the xvords of Moore— " Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tiue their music tells. Of youth, and home, aud that *wc-1 time When last I heard their soothing chime." “An Editor in Heaven.” How Siberians Eat.—We have heard of the enormous appetites of the natives of Siberia, writes a correspond ent. We now had occular demonstra tion of it. One of our Tungusians had been sent back on an errand. The other txvo sat down to their supper.— First they made axvay xvith a gallon of hot tea. Then they prepared a four- quart pailful of boiled fish and soup. Just as this xvas dispatched their com rade returned, and the same pail was twice filled xvith boiled beef, all of xvhich xvas devoured by the three, the bones being cracked for the marrow. They then rinsed out the pail, and cooked it full of “ crupa,” a kind of mush, which xvent the xvay of the fish and beef. Then they fell upon “ ukale" or dried salmon, devouring exen the skin, after broiling it over the fire.— Then they built their oxvn camp fire, and began to cook another meal. We did not keep any account of the dishes, but the last thing xve heard after retir ing xvas the cracking of beef bones to get at the marroxv. Swartz tolds us that a fexv months before a number of horses had been sent to Ajan under charge of a half dozen Cossacks. One of the horses broke its leg, aud had to to lie killed. At evening the six Cos sacks sat doxvn to the carcass, and in the morning there xvas nothing left of it but the hide and bones. Even the head and entrails had been eaten. A Frenchman gives the folloxving account of the Temptation and Fall of Adam and Eve: Monsieur Adam, he xvake up, he sees une belle demoiselle aslip in ze garden. Voila dc la chance. Bon jour, Madame Iv.” Madame Iv she xvoke; she hole her fan before her face. Adam put up his eye-glass to admire zc tableau. Zey make < ne promenade. Madam Iv, she feels hun gry ; she see appel on ze arbre. Ser pent se prome sur l’arbre, make on xvalk on ze tree. “ Mons. le Serpent,” say I\% “ will you not haveze bonte to peek me some appel, J’ai faim ?”— “ Certaiument, madanie,” say ze ser pent, “charmede vous voir.” “ Hula, mon ami, ar-r-r-eter vous,” say Adam; “stop, stop, que songen x’ous faire?— Certainly not pulled, and left upon the ground, if their seeds are only form ed. It is not safe at this stage of their growth to throw them into the hogyard, or to put them in a heap with manure. Nor xvill it be safe to leavo them upon the ground where they grew. Some of them are so tenacious of life that, even if the plant be pulled up it is said that the sap will floxv upward, the flower will bloom and the seed ripen to be scattered over the fields next year. There is no killing them by gen tle means. They xvill live three feet under ground for years, and if the land is again stirred to that depth, up xvill spriug a thick crop of weeds again to flourish iu their full strength. We haxe seen a stout pigweed pulled entire ly out of the ground, with the excep tion of the end of a very small root, not ouly to go on aud live, but to blos som and perfect a large crop of seed ! Do not trust them iu nuy position, xvliere a complete decomposition xvill uot speedily take place, either by lire or the agency of some strong alkaline or other susstaucc. If dried on the ground after the seed is formed, there xvill be no danger.— If thrown into heaps, they xvill not he likely to rot before some of them have perfected seed. If thrown to sxvine, a portion of them xvould be left to go on xvith their work of maturitig seed, and so it xvould be if they xvere mingled xvith manure. They cannot well be burnt in their green state, so that the sate and economical course is to throw them iuto a compact heap, and mingle them xvith quick lime, or wood ashes, or keep them moist so that they be come thoroughly heated and decom posed. Even then, the moss should lie exposed to the sun and air until quite certain that the vitality of the seeds is destrox’ed.—N. E. Farmer. Mixed Farming. We ask those farmers in our State, xvho rely exclusively upon one product for their income, to read and ponder the folloxving words of xvisdom taken from the Farmers' Herald, of Chester, England. Small accretions make the xvealth of the farmer. His business, rightly managed, is a x'ery sure one, but sometimes sloxv. The risk is small and so are the profits, but the liability to loss can with great certainty be guarded against by planting and cul tivating a variety of crops. Mixed husbandry is needful to real ize the full amount of profit which the farm properly managed will yield.— Every year the price of farm products x'aries—some xvill be high, and some xvill be loxv, and thus the farmer catches good prices for a part, if not all; xvhereas, if he is xvholly dependent up on one kind of crop, he may lie wholly disappointed. A little sold of every thing makes a niucklc, and if one does not pay, another xvill. Kindness to Animals. Apropos to an article going the What Madness is zees, you must not rounds under the above heading, an j peek ze appel.” Ze snake he take one exchange presents the folloxving legend: Once upon a time after the demise of one of the corps editorial, he pre sented himself at the gate of the Golden city, and requested admission. The door-keeper asked him xvhat had been his occupation while on terra firma ! He replied he had been an editor. Well,” said the xvatchman, “ xve have a crowd of your kind here noxv, and they all came in as * dead heads.’ If you pay your passage you can come in; if not, you must place yourself under the control of a personage you ruled tyranically down beloxv ”—mean ing the devil. Not having the xvherexvith to go in, our brother of the quill and scissors posted off, and presented himself at the entrance of Clootie’s dark domains. A very dark-complexioned gentleman stood sentry, and asked in a gruff voice, Who comes ?’ “An hutnble disciple of Faust,” xvsis the calm reply. “ Then hold on, you can’t be ad mitted,” exclaimed the gentleman in black, evincing considerable agitation, and fiercely scoxvling upon him. pinch of snuff, he say: “ Ah! Mons. Adam, do you not knoxv there is nos- sing prohebeet for ze ladies ? Madame Iv, permit me to offer you some of this fruit defendu.” Iv, she make one courtesy, ze snake he fill her whole parasol xviz appel. He say “ Eritls sicut Deus. Mons. Adam, he will eat ze appel, he xvill become likedne Dieu, know ze good and ze evil, but you, Madame Iv, cannot become more of a goddess zan you are noxv.” And zis finish Madame Iv. Arsenical Ornaments.—A fexv days ago a little girl had a bunch of artificial grapes given to her. After amusing herself with the toy she gave it to a playmate of her oxvn age, who presently picked a grape off the bunch and sucked it The next day she was a corpse. An eminent physician, who analyzed the fatal plaything, deposed that ten of the grapes yielded three graius of arsenite of copper The great secret in raising orderly and tractable animals, lies in treating them kindly and gently when young. A heifer that is kicked, roughly treated and occasionally scared into xvildness, xvill probably make a vicious coxv—one that xvill kick or hook occasionally; for she has learned to consider those xvho approach her as enemies. On the con trary, one that has never learned to fear those xvho feed or attend to her, xvill submit to the operation of milking xvitliout resistance, and can be broken to all the customary duties of a cow xvith ease laid safety. Give that gentle creature tnat will lick the hand or her attendant, iuto the charge of a coarse, ill-natured keeper, who xvill use her roughly, and xvheu she shrinks natu rally from such treatment xvill abuse and beat her, the instincts of nature, heretofore dormant, xvill be aroused, and in fear, more than anger, she will kick and otherwise resist the unaccus tomed cruelty. It is thus xvith colts. A stubborn and ill-tempered horse is very easily made out of a well-meaning colt by unkind usage. We do not de precate proper discipline when neces sary. Let it be administered xvith judgment, and xvhen required to correct a fault, afterxvards let kind treatment shoxv that punishment is administered for certain purposes only. The following is taken from the Farmers Home Joumc l: Of the multifarious objects to which the interests and attention of David, King of the Jews, xvas directed in pro moting the national policy of his peo ple, we have, in a very brief recital of the organization of the “ home depart ment,” a glimpse of the prosperous state of agriculture in the latter part of Jm reign. It appears from first_. Chronicles 27,' that, in the department of the interior were twelve distinct subordinate departments of offices, the incumbents of xvhich were doubtless of the first intelligence and skill, each at bis appropriate business. These offices- were in the folloxving numerical order s 1. Treasury. 2. Overseer of Htore-liousaL 3. Tillage. 4. Vineyards. 5. Wine Cellars, 6. Olive Trees. 7i Oil Cellars. 8. Sharon Henlman. 9. Valley Hcrdman. 10. Camel Overseer. 11. Overseer of Asses. 12. Shepherds. David’s xvars had ended—his onoinios subdued—the nation was settling down in peace. The military chieftain, from planning aud conducting campaigns, became the President of the National Agricultural Society. It was au era in the history of David and of the ua- tion—a delightful epoch iu the annals- of the xvorld—the formation of era agricultural society. The orguuizatioD is proof not only of tho prosperous condition of agriculture at that time- among the Jews, but marks the wisdom- of David, of whom it must be admitted’ that lie xvas the. originator or founder of agricultural .societies. The progress of the nation during David’s reign xvas very great us it was only in the next preceding reign and generation under Philistine servitude that it is related that “ there was no- smith found throughout the land of Israel, but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share aud his coulter and his axe and mattock.” But in David’s reign the xvhole country seems to haxe liecn resolved into one great patent farm, un derlie combined superintendence of the “ twelve,” a number so familiar and prominent in the national auuals. If this first agricultural society had uot the appendages of a cattle show aud the annual autumnal fair which per tains to societies of modern times, its instructor, as briefly sketched in the sacred history, has all tho important elements obtained by those of the pres ent day, after a lapse of three thousand, years. Immediately succeeding tho account of David’s agricultural society, which appears to have heeu among tho first acts of his life in farming, is his faro- well address. The address was deliv ered to the vast assembly composed of princes, various officers, civil, religions and military, instituted and appointed by his classifying hand, and a great concourse of people. The occasion xvas in striking contrast to his flights in ear lier days from cave to cave. The xvar- clouds that hung dark, lowering and heavy, xvere noxv all dissipated and his unclouded setting sun shone with soft ened but magnificent splendor, in tinif it xvas the birthday of agricultural so cieties, the offspring of peace. A writer in the Massachusetts Plow man has this to say about potatoes: a deadly The Early Rose potato is a success with poison—and that each vine-leaf on the bunch contained enough to kill a child. Another child’s cupboard, in which its ‘ toys xvere kept, was lined with green Why not?” demanded the typo, who began to get some huffish, and looked around for a “sheep’s foot” with which to force an entrance. “ Well, sir,” replied his sable majesty, “ we let one of your profession in here many years ago, and he kept up a con tinual row with his former delinquent subscribers, and as we have more of paper. The poor little thing sickened and died, obviously from the effects poison mysteriously imbibed. Dr. Letheby analyzed the paper-hanging of the cupboard, and found that a piece of it only six inches square contained nearly thirteen grains of the deadly compound—enough to kill two groxvn- up persons!—The London Inquirer. myself and neighbors this season. The yield in some cases is surprising. The King of the Earlys is less productive and later. It is “ played out” before it is “ played in.” Planted in roxvs and hills beside the former kind the yield is less and the tubers inferior as to size and fairness. Instead of the “ king,” its name should be the “ coun terfeit” of the Earlys. But the origi nator of the Early Rose deserves the title of benefactor of mankind and monument. Who is he ? Spoiling Horses’ Feet.—It is al most impossible to get a horse shod without having the frogs cut away.— All x’etcrinary surgeons, all horse men, all leading blncksmiths, agree that tho frog should not be pared one particle— not even trimmed. No matter how pliable and soft the frog is, cut it away smooth oii all sides, and in two days it xvill be dry aud hard as a chip. You might as xx-ell cut off all the leaves of trees and expect them to flourish as to para away the frog and have a healthy foot The rough, spongy part of the frog is to the foot what leaves arc to the tree—the lungs. 2. Never have a red-hot shoe put upon the foot to burn it level. If you can find a blacksmith that is mechanic enough to lex’el the foot without red-hot iron, employ him. The burning pro cess deadens the hoof and tends to con tract it. If you do not think so, try the red-hot poker on your finger-nail and sec hoxv it xvill affect the growth of that. There are muny other important points in shoeing horses, but these two are of more importance than all tho rest, level to the apprehension of men not skilled in horses, and the two most -Mirror and Farmer. The Elmira Gazette remarks: “The champion sardine-eater of the xmriffts f the local of the Anbnm Advertiser.— He says: ‘ We pay nearly $4,000,000 annually to Franco for sardines.’”